Silicon carbide (SiC) devices belong to the group of wide bandgap semiconductors and have several characteristics that make them attractive for a wide range of power applications. Compared to silicon devices, SiC components have higher voltage and current capacity, lower losses, larger breakdown field strength, faster-switching, and ability to withstand…

Bluetooth offers low-cost, energy-efficient and easy to deploy indoor positioning and tracking technology. This helps to easily locate or track items and people, find directions and other important information within buildings and facilities such as airports, shopping malls, and others. Usually, the location information has the potential to open up…

FANUC, a leading robot manufacturer in Japan, has a 22-factory complex where they use the ‘lights-out’ manufacturing concept to build their products - with very little or no human intervention. …

5G is the fifth-generation wireless technology with the potential to transform communication systems. It offers higher speeds, low latency and other benefits that will open up and power a wide range of existing and emerging technologies. The 5G network delivers faster connections with much larger capacity and low latency (less…

When it comes to testing a circuit assembly, you can test with simulation and you can test in-circuit. A boundary scan test is something else entirely, allowing you to test the state of individual traces while the circuit is active. A boundary-scan test is a technique of checking ICs and…

Building electronic circuits within a system-on-chip (SoC) has benefits such as improving compatibility and efficiency while reducing space requirements and speed of development. In IoT, including the wireless technology in the SoC helps to overcome implementation challenges such as network incompatibility, integration, and reliability issues. Edge devices or sensors without…

Testing printed circuit boards (PCBs) throughout the design and manufacturing processes is essential in ensuring quality products. It avoids situations where designers and manufacturers realize that the product is faulty at the last minute, while the boards are in full production, or already in the market. Even after following proper…

Two or three decades ago, it was a privilege to connect a work computer to the Internet, and it was only possible through wired connections. During its early days, the Internet was purely for emails and work-related activities. Today, this has changed and the number of internet-connected devices is more…

This is Part 2 — In part 1, we covered several causes of signal integrity issues. In this section, we’ll discuss recommendations to help mitigate. After designing the schematic, the next steps are layout and verification using simulation. …